Crystal Castles  (Thundervision)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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The Thundervision version of Crystal Castles is a totally different version from the U.S.Gold one.  The Thundervision one has a slightly different perspective angle which actually looks closer to the arcade version.

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Bentley Bear is trapped in the Crystal Castles! To get out, he will need to collect all of the gems located throughout the castle. The game is played with an isometric view of the multi platformed castle. When Bentley collects all of the gems on the current castle, he will move on to the next, more difficult castle. Wandering throughout the castles are a wide variety of dangerous creatures, which Bentley should avoid. From time to time, a magic hat will appear. If Bentley collects the hat, he will temporarily be invincible to the castles inhabitants.

Alternate Titles

"Crystal Castles: Diamond Plateaus in Space" -- BBC Micro + Commodore 64 tag-lined title
"Crystal Castles: Bentley Bear's A-maze-ing Adventures" -- Atari 2600 tag-lined title

Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Arcade version of Crystal Castles appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Spectrum release

In a rather strange marketing move, US Gold made the Spectrum version 'Limited Edition', not pressing any more copies after the initial run. Stranger still, they later reissued the game on budget, and on a magazine cover-tape later still. The conversion was some time after the other formats, and not perceived as being of a high quality, so perhaps they wanted to limit the damage to their reputation.

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Description from the packaging  (Atari 2600 version) :

Bentley Bear's A-maze-ing adventures.

Bentley Bear is trapped in Crystal Castles, home of Berthilda the Witch and her evil cronies. To escape, he must harvest all the gems in each castle while avoiding the deadly touch of the castle's inhabitants. Watch for the magic hat. As long as he's wearing it, Bentley is invincible. But look out! If Bentley isn't careful, the evil creatures will turn him into bear stew!

"...What makes Crystal Castles such a solid number is its play value." - Electronic Games.

For use with the Atari 2600 series systems, and Sears Video Arcade and Video Arcade II.

12 Challenging Castles.

Unlimited number of game levels.

Outsmart 8 evil creatures!

Use your joystick controller with this game cartridge.

For one player.
